papaver

From the genus name, from Latin papāver.

• IPA^(key): /pəˈpeɪvə(ɹ)/

papaver (plural papavers)

1. Any plant of the genus Papaver, poppies.

• papaverous

From Middle Dutch papaver, from Latin papāver.

• IPA^(key): /ˌpaːˈpaː.vər/

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• Hyphenation: pa‧pa‧ver
• Rhymes: -aːvər

papaver f (plural papavers, diminutive papavertje n)

1. papaver, poppy, plant of the genus Papaver

   Synonyms: heul, klaproos, maankop

   Hyponyms: klaproos, slaapbol, slaapkruid

2. several kinds of narcotic drugs made from the poppy.

   Synonyms: heul, maankop, slaapbol, slaapkruid

Borrowed from Latin pavot. Doublet of pavot.

papaver m (plural papavers)

1. papaver

• “papaver”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• papāuer

Unknown.

Manaster Ramer sees here a reduplication of Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥ (“fire”).[1]

Some have tried to link it to pāscō (“to feed”),[2] or to an imitative root *pap (“to swell”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /paˈpaː.u̯er/, [päˈpäːu̯ɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /paˈpa.ver/, [päˈpäːver]

papāver n (genitive papāveris); third declension

1. poppy

   Synonym: rhoeas

   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 1.54:

     Summa papaverum capita dicitur baculo decussisse.

     It is said that he struck off the heads of the tallest poppies with a stick.

2. seed
   • (Can we date this quote?), Tertullian, de Praescriptione Haereticorum, 35

     De papavere ficus gratissimae et suavissimae ventosa et vana caprificus exsurgit

     From the seed of the most delicious and grateful fig branches out the useless and deceptive wild fig.

Anteclassically, papāver was masculine.

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• “papaver”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “papaver”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• papaver in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.